Virginia Reeves

http://www.virginia-reeves.com/

Virginia Reeves is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at UT-Austin. Her debut novel, Work Like Any Other, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and Booklist named it to their Top 10 First Novels of 2016.

She lives in Helena, Montana, with her husband, two daughters, and three-legged Pit Bull.

Books by Virginia Reeves

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Book Reviews by Virginia Reeves

Image of My Heavenly Favorite: A Novel
Author(s):
Lucas Rijneveld
Genre(s):
Literary Fiction, In Translation, Series, Thriller, Social & Family Issues

My Heavenly Favorite: A Novel

March 14, 2024
Reviewed by: 
Virginia Reeves

It’s impossible to discuss Lucas Rijneveld’s My Heavenly Favorite without discussing Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. Told in an epistolary style from the perspective of the perpetrator

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Image of I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
Author(s):
Keiran Goddard
Genre(s):
Dark Humor, Urban Life, Genre Fiction, Humor

I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

February 20, 2024
Reviewed by: 
Virginia Reeves

“Their lives—like most—are lived in gray zones, in the margins and crusts, in the very conflict itself.”

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Image of Blizzard: A Novel
Author(s):
Marie Vingtras
Genre(s):
Mystery & Thriller, Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Literary Fiction

Blizzard

January 22, 2024
Reviewed by: 
Virginia Reeves

“the plot of Blizzard is compulsive enough to carry it through to the end. The age-old question of what happens next compels the turning of the page.”

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Image of The Postcard
Author(s):
Anne Berest
Translator(s):
Tina Kover
Genre(s):
Biographical, Genre Fiction, Families, Literary Fiction

The Postcard

May 15, 2023
Reviewed by: 
Virginia Reeves

“Reading this novel is intimate, uncomfortably so at moments, but that intimacy is a gift. . . .

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Image of Hourglass
Author(s):
Keiran Goddard
Genre(s):
Debut, Literary Fiction, Relationships, Contemporary

Hourglass

March 2, 2023
Reviewed by: 
Virginia Reeves

“Like in the best comedy, Goddard disguises some of our deepest and hardest truths in jokes that make us both laugh and then . . .

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Image of The Deceptions
Author(s):
Jill Bialosky
Genre(s):
Fiction, Women’s Fiction, Mothers, Literary Fiction, Social & Family Issues, Psychological, Relationships & Marriages

The Deceptions: A Novel

January 30, 2023
Reviewed by: 
Virginia Reeves

“this novel asks one of humanity’s most important questions . . .”

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Image of The Empire of Dirt: A Novel
Author(s):
Francesca Manfredi
Translator(s):
Ekin Oklap
Genre(s):
Debut, Women’s Fiction, Families, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age

The Empire of Dirt: A Novel

August 11, 2022
Reviewed by: 
Virginia Reeves

“lyrical beauty of Manfredi’s prose . . . at its heart, The Empire of Dirt is a rich puzzle impossible to resist.”

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Image of The April 3rd Incident: Stories
Author(s):
Yu Hua
Genre(s):
Anthologies, Short Stories, Asian American

The April 3rd Incident: Stories

November 14, 2018
Reviewed by: 
Virginia Reeves

The seven stories that make up this collection were originally published in China between 1987 and 1991, early in the author’s career.

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Image of In the House in the Dark of the Woods
Author(s):
Laird Hunt
Genre(s):
Literary Fiction, Horror, Historical Fiction

In the House in the Dark of the Woods

October 15, 2018
Reviewed by: 
Virginia Reeves

Threaded with magic and peril, Laird Hunt’s latest novel explores the wilds of colonial New England through the lens of a missing woman.

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